Chapter 6 culture and psychology
You are introduced to a person who is said to have an independent view of self. Based on Markus and Kitayama's (1991) model, which of the following would you LEAST expect the person to say?
"I am a member of a ballet dance group."
Which of the following statements about the Big Five model of personality is FALSE?
As people age, they tend to become more neurotic.
Which of the following was found in Suh's (2002) research on self-consistency in Koreans and Americans?
Consistency is positively associated with likability in the United States but not in Korea.
Which of the followings statements accurately describes the relationship between social class and individualism?
Higher social class is associated with independence in Western cultures and interdependence in Eastern cultures.
Why do motivations for self-consistency appear weaker among East Asians than among Westerners?
In the West, self-consistency correlates more strongly with subjective well-being and with being liked by others than it does in East Asia.
Which of the following people is taking an outside-in perspective on the self?
Lily, who perceives herself as smart after learning that her roommates saw her all-A's report card.
Jaden has a strong sense of his own identity and does not see a strong divide between strangers he has just met and his family members. What is this characteristic of?
independent theory of self
You are chatting with a stranger in a coffee shop. Every time you ask him something about himself, he talks about associations to which he belongs and clubs he has joined. He rarely talks about his own attributes. Which of the following best describes him?
interdependent view of self
Which of the following accurately lists the five personality traits that make up the five-factor model of personality?
openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
Someone with an incremental theory of the self
thinks that he or she could be a different person in the future.
